those pesky "other people"............

      As Irving Kristol wrote almost two decades ago, the fundamental problem is that technological and scientific elites "have the inclination to think that the world is full of 'problems' to which they should seek 'solutions.' But the world isn't full of problems; the world is full of other people."  Of course, he adds, "there is no 'solution' to the existence of other people.  All you can do is figure out a civilized accommodation with them."

-Joel Kotkin, The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class